Joe Shishido

Joe Shishido

Acting

Born December 6, 1933 · Kita, Osaka, Japan

Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in over 200 films but is best known in the West for his…

Known for

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

1995

Big City: Days of Struggle

Big City: Days of Struggle

1976

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Detective Office 5: Another Story

2005

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Detective Office 5: Another Story

2005

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1991

Key Hunter

Key Hunter

1968

Pro Hunter

Pro Hunter

1981

Flower & Snake II

Flower & Snake II

2005

Acting(252)

2026Twist & Shoot: Mister SuzukiSelf (archive footage)

2012The Final JudgementLao Porto

2011Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

2010A Night in Nude: SalvationNaoki Yamagami

2009The CodeDetective 500

2007Switching – Goodbye MeYoshinosuke Yoshida

2007KisaragiOoiso Long Beach Host

2007Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

2006Proud Ambition 5

2006Proud Ambition 4

2006Proud Ambition 2

2006Proud Ambition

2006A Surgeon Named Hitman

2005Detective Office 5500

2005Detective Office 5: Another StoryChief 500

2005Shin Japan's Don 6

2005Proud Ambition 3

2005Flower & Snake IITakayoshi Tooyama

2005Shin Japan's Don 5

2005Shin Japan's Don 4

2004Class Reunion

2004Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless

2004Shin Japan's Don: Waves

2002Yakuza Jihad

2001Drowning FishAce no Jo

2001Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street

2000Debt King Part VII: Millennium

2000Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna

1997To LoveChinen

1997Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1996The TrapJo Shishido

1995Fukushu no TeioKazunari Inaba

1995The Files of the Young KindaichiFujio Tashiro

1995The Stairway to the Distant PastJo Shishido

1995Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH

1994Turning PointHashizume

1994The Most Terrible Time in My LifeJoe

1994Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong

1994Tough Cop - Ginza Police

1993Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

1993JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

1992The Setting Sun

1992The GamblerJoe of Aces

19928 Man - For All Lonely NightsDr. Tani

1991Danger Point: The Road to Hell

1991The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

1991God's Pinch Hitter

1991Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the BulletJunichi Mizuta

1991Kimi no na wa角倉勘次

1991The Killers

1990Run the Beast

1990Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

1990Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the BulletJunichi Mizuta

1990Nozomi WitchesRyotaro's father

1989You'll Fall For Me

1989Red Crow and the Ghost ShipCaptain

1988This Heartbeat

1988Tokyo: The Last MegalopolisTokuji Hayakawa

1987Star Force: Fugitive Alien IICaptain Joe

1987Fugitive AlienCaptain Joe

1987The Beauty in the Black MaskTakeo Sato

1986Leave My Girl AloneBar Owner

1986Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the SeacoastSchool Principal

1986Katayoku dake no tenshi

1986Take It Easy

1985I'm All YoursPriest

1985Caribe: Symphony of LoveShunsuke Saichu

1985Yakyuukyou no Uta

1984Sukanpin WalkTatsuya Sekikawa

1983Our Wedding

1982I Are You, You Am MeKouzou Saitoh

1982Fossilized Wilderness

1981Edo PornJyuppensha Ikku

1981Blue Jeans Memory

1981Pro Hunter菊島雄三

1980The First Catch

1980Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji

1980Nurse's Husband

1979Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen

1978Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

1978Bandits vs. Samurai SquadronTominoichi

1978Star WolfCaptain Joe

1977Black Jack: The Visitor in the EyeBlack Jack

1977High Seas HijackChief Engineer Kosai

1977Gambling Code and FeudsKatsuya Sekikawa

1977Ore no soraGenjiro Yasuda

1977A Tale of Sorrow and SadnessCop

1977Dazzling Cops

1977The Alaska Story

1976Big City: Days of Struggle

1976The Sea of GenkaiSawaki

1976Wind, Clouds, and RainbowGendō

1975ConflagrationChief Engineer Kosai

1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1Hachiro Tachibana

1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final EpisodeKatsutoshi Otomo

1974Center of TokyoHyodo

1974Blitz!! Strada 5Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter

1973The Hard Core Criminal

1973None But the Brave

1973Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

1972New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm

1972New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

1972The Witty Samurai

1971Bad Girl MakoYasuoka

1971Monk's Paradise

1971Blood for BloodNaoto Tezuka

1971Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

1971Go As Messy As Messy Can BeMujitori

1971A Man's World

1971New Shameless SchoolGebageba

1970Shameless School: Tackle KissMacaroni

1970New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

1970Shameless School: Health Check in the NudeMacaroni

1970Charming MenKobe Saburo

1970Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa

1970Shameless SchoolMacaroni

1970A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

1970Greatest Boss of Japan

1970Profile of a Boss' Son

1969The Cleanup

1969Biographies of Killers

1969Thirteen Times a LoserSeiji Okitsu

1969Chivalrous Pride

1969Ex Convict: Sword Storm

1969The Rough OneImano's Bodyguard

1969100 Gamblers

1969Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

1969Exiled to Hell

1969Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1968魔性の女

1968RetaliationHino

1968Stardust Wharf

1967Outlaw's Gold三鬼鉄

1967The Aftermath of War

1967My SweetheartPresident Shishido

1967The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967Velvet Hustler

1967Massacre GunRyûichi Kuroda

1967Asia-PolGeorge

1967Branded to KillGorô Hanada

1967Burning Clouds

1967A Colt Is My PassportShuji Kamimura

1966Asiapol Secret ServiceGeorge Eaton

1966Love Eternal

1966Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1966Blood ShedSeiji

1966Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of TriumphKokichi Yamaguch

1966The Dragon and the Tiger

1965The Dragon of MacaoAizu

1965Three Stray Dogs

1965Murder UnincorporatedJiro (Joe of Spades)

1965Inochi Shirazu no RokudenashiTornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki

1965Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

1965Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

1964Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune DuelJoe of Aces

1964Tiger of the Sea

1964Gate of FleshShintaro Ibuki

1964Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ

1964Jinsei Gekijo

1964Cruel Gun StoryTogawa

1964Tale on Tokai Chivalry

1963Hell FestivalTetsu the Otter

1963Chivalrous Outlaw

1963Tale on Kanto ChivalryMasa from Kanto

1963Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and WomenHideo Tajima

1963Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing

1963Youth of the BeastJôji 'Jo' Mizuno

1963Notorious BastardTatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)

1963Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!Hideo Tajima

1962Traces of Lead

1962Danger PaysJôji Kondô

1962Glass-Hearted JohnnyJô

1962Jūdan no arashi

1962Solo Traveler

1962The Frozen Plains

1962Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962Kimagure tosei

1962Mexico Drifter

1961Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

1961Crimson Pistol

1961I'll End in HellJoji Dan

1961Gun of Nosappu

1961The Crimson PlainsJoji Sakuma

1961Gambler in the Sea

1961Joe of Aces: Give and TakeEiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

1961Quick Draw JoeJoe the Ace

1961Joe of Aces: Gambling for a LivingEiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

1961Pacific Porters

1961The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1960Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without TomorrowJo of the Colt

1960The Angry Rambler

1960The Rambler Rides Again

1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

1960The Man with a Sinister LaughKen

1960The Rambler in the Sunset

1960Wind of Volcano

1960The Gun Like LightningGoro

1960Return of the Vagabond

1960The Guitarist from the Sea

1960Ryuji, the Gun SlingerGin of the Colt

1960The Cards Will Tell

1960The Guitarist and the Rancher

1959Mighty Rules

1959Who is in the Background?

1959The Rambling GuitaristGeorge

1959The Human CycloneMasa

1959Crime ReporterFujimoto

1959Merciless BulletYukie's lover

1959Tokyo no Kodoku

1959Machi ga nemuru toki

1959Gun Number Zero

1959Wounded Beast

1959We Live Today

1959Zattō ni hikarume

1958Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

1958Voice Without a ShadowHamazaki

1958Taiyō o buchi otose

1958The Boy Who Came BackKajita

1958死の壁の脱出Jiro Asaoka

1958Rusty KnifeShimabara

1958Breasts and Bullets

1957The Naked Woman and the Gun

1957Small Rats of the Edo TownHidematsu

1957TemptationGoro Yasui

1957The ChampionBoxer Ishiyama

1957Muhō Ichidai

1957Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16Masaki Yoshihara

1956Frankie the MilkmanZenkichi Matsubara

1956Kingorô no omawari-san

1956Kanshō fujin

1956Shiawase wa doko niTetsuo Shimura

1956The Happy Dancers

1956This Is Home

1956Seishun wo warera niTakai

1956Called to the Stand

1955Tsukiyo no kasa

1955The Maid's Kid

1955Policeman's DiaryPatrolman Yabuta

1955His Highness SurabayaApplied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent

1954My Pistol Is QuickAirplane Passenger

1954Women's HouseOkada (employee of Inogawa's company)

1954The Black CurrentNewspaper Reporter